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Brief biographies from American history

Brief biographies from American history

by Edna Henry Lee Turpin

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Author
Turpin, Edna Henry Lee, 1867-1952
Title
Brief biographies from American history, for the fifth and sixth grades : Required by the syllabus for elementary schools of New York State Education Department
Original Publication
United States: Charles E. Merrill Co., 1907.
Credits
Donald Cummings, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
E151: History: America: United States
Subject
United States -- Biography
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 75050
Release Date
January 6, 2025
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY
  4. 4.Untitled
  5. 5.PREFACE
  6. 6.PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
  7. 7.CONTENTS
  8. 8.Leif the Lucky
  9. 9.Marco Polo A Famous Traveler
  10. 10.Christopher Columbus The Great Admiral
  11. 11.Ferdinand De Soto The Discoverer of the Mississippi River
  12. 12.John Cabot The Discoverer of the Continent of North America
  13. 13.Sir Francis Drake A Famous English Adventurer
  14. 14.Sir Walter Raleigh The Father of American Colonization
  15. 15.Captain John Smith
  16. 16.Pocahontas An Indian Princess
  17. 17.Miles Standish A Pilgrim Leader
  18. 18.John Winthrop A Puritan Governor
  19. 19.Roger Williams An Advocate of Religious Liberty
  20. 20.Henry Hudson
  21. 21.Peter Minuit
  22. 22.Peter Stuyvesant The Last Dutch Governor of New York
  23. 23.Samuel de Champlain The Father of New France
  24. 24.Robert de la Salle The Explorer of the Mississippi River
  25. 25.Lords Baltimore of Baltimore
  26. 26.William Penn A Famous Quaker
  27. 27.James Edward Oglethorpe The Founder of Georgia
  28. 28.Philip An Indian King
  29. 29.Nathaniel Bacon The Leader of the Great Rebellion
  30. 30.Benjamin Franklin A Great Typical American
  31. 31.Montcalm and Wolfe
  32. 32.Patrick Henry An Eloquent Orator
  33. 33.Samuel Adams A Massachusetts Patriot
  34. 34.George Washington The Leader of the Revolution
  35. 35.Philip Schuyler
  36. 36.Nathanael Greene
  37. 37.John Paul Jones Our First Naval Hero
  38. 38.Thomas Jefferson The Author of the Declaration of Independence
  39. 39.Alexander Hamilton The Founder of the Federalist Party
  40. 40.Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky
  41. 41.Oliver Hazard Perry and Thomas Macdonough Two Naval Commanders in the War of 1812
  42. 42.Marquis de Lafayette A French Patriot
  43. 43.Some American Improvements and Inventions
  44. 44.Andrew Jackson The Man of the People
  45. 45.Henry Clay The Great Peacemaker
  46. 46.Daniel Webster A Famous Orator
  47. 47.Abraham Lincoln The War President
  48. 48.Ulysses Simpson Grant
  49. 49.Robert E. Lee The Leader of the Confederate Armies
  50. 50.David G. Farragut Our First Admiral
  51. 51.Clara Barton The President of the American Red Cross Society
  52. 52.George B. Dewey
  53. 53.Andrew Carnegie The Steel King
  54. 54.Untitled

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